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briandmyers  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Brian Leiter, “Why Tolerate Religion?”

Feynman does not argue from authority. People may trust him as an authority, and I certainly do, but the point is that his peers do not.





StephenBuckley  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hmm. Sounds an awful lot like

    following someone else's thinking without question
to me. But, hey, if you say that it's reason then I guess you just need a new definition of religion.
briandmyers  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I didn't say it was reason. I said Feynman does not argue from authority.